The Tractatus was incomprehensible to most philosophers that read it because it is not a series of arguments. It is basically a single thought that you have to hold in your mind all at once to turn it into an operator.
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Wittgenstein points out in the preface that he does not expect it to be very useful to people that did not have the same thoughts. Indeed, it is somewhere between delicious and trivial for AI programmers to read it, and practically useless for almost anyone else.
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Interesting, can you expand on this thesis?
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The Tractatus was the first attempt at defining an artificial language that would be capable of dealing with all of thought. It eventually failed (see Philosophical Investigations) due to difficulty of dealing with ambiguity, perceptual grounding, combinatorial explosion etc.
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They are being solved? What problems in particular?
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There are four language paradigms: the mathematical principles of function approximation, the lossy best effort paradigms of the brain, the conceptual language that we translate into a disambiguating natural language, and the lossless compression of constructive formal languages.
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peopleWhoNoticed += 2.25 Your Wittgenstein take suggests that Heidegger and W both "deeply critiqued formalist philosophers who preceded GOFAI". In a salon 10 years ago "we" noticed Heidegger's AGI relevance, but not (explicitly) Wittgenstein's... http://emergentepistemology.blogspot.com/2008/02/heideggerian-ai.html …
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Wittengenstein was arguably a formalist philosopher who preempted classical AI. He then ran into problems he could not solve, and the Investigations document that failure. But the problems do have a solution (but it requires to give up formalism, only to regain it later).
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i love Wittgenstein's simple idea. if the limits of my language are the limits of my mind, then to expand the limits of my mind, i must expand the limits of my language. That's why Grammar Induction is so brilliant
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